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Evelyn Mayo - Downwinders

Ms. Mayo is an experienced Community Educator with a demonstrated history of working with low-income people on housing, environmental and community advocacy concerns. She is skilled in Grassroots Organizing, Facilitation, Environmental Justice, and Strategic Advocacy. Ms. Mayo received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), from Columbia University with a focus on Environmental Science, and a Concentration in Race and Ethnicity from Barnard College. Currently Ms. Mayo is pursuing a Masters in City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington. 

Ms. Mayo has been the Chair of Downwinders' Particulate Matter Campaign Committee since its creation last Fall. In that role, she's helped raise the profile of a long-ignored pollutant. She initiated and helped host community meetings on the dangers of PM. She's a liaison between Downwinders and the North Texas Transit Riders to help better protect a population that's routinely exposed to high levels of PM pollution. She coordinated the deployment of Downwinders' portable PM monitors in the Joppa neighborhood that revealed high levels of PM there when City staff was trying to reassure residents with the readings of an EPA monitor nine miles away. 

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